Spoken languages are more flexible in usage than written languages. Thus, tagging spoken corpus differs from tagging traditional written corpus. This paper proposes a new framework for tagging spoken corpus. The framework adopts the written tagger to process spoken data with the special consideration of the characteristics of spoken language. Besides, the problems of different tagging sets betw...

To study the spoken language interface in the context of a complex problem-solving task, a group of users were asked to perform a spreadsheet task, alternating voice and keyboard input. A total of 40 tasks were performed by each participant, the first thirty in a group (over several days), the remaining ones a month later. The voice spreadsheet program used in this study was extensively instrum...

An existing natural language speech dialogue system will be integrated with an existing mathematics tutor to provide adaptive instruction for grade school children. The resulting dialogue tutor will use general linguistic knowledge, including a fairly complex model of English and taskoriented dialogues, to speak to the student when he or she has trouble solving a problem. The tutor will initiat...

This paper investigates some of the challenges that arise when parsing transcribed spoken language, as opposed to parsing written language. In particular, the paper has focus on identifying clauses as the object of syntactic analysis, and parsing data containg production errors.

Preface The present report is the first one in a series from the strategic research programme: Spoken Language Dialogue Systems. The programme is sponsored by the Danish Technical Research Council, and runs for a four year (primo 1991-primo 1995) period. The participants are the Speech Technology Centre (STC) The objective of the programme is to develop human-computer spoken dialogue system pro...

The objective of this project is to develop a real-time spoken language system capable of understanding and responding to spoken English commands and queries for interactive human-machine applications, such as battle management, command and control, and training of personnel on complex tasks. The system will also include a capability to adapt to new speakers and a capability to detect when a us...

EU-BRIDGE1 is a European research project which is aimed at developing innovative speech translation technology. One of the collaborative efforts within EU-BRIDGE is to produce joint submissions of up to four different partners to the evaluation campaign at the 2014 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT). We submitted combined translations to the German→English spoken lan...

Research on spoken language bilinguals has shown that there is a significant relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and literacy outcomes. The mechanism of SES as a predictor of literacy success has two competing explanations. One assumes a direct impact of SES on literacy through expanded opportunities to read and better maternal mediation of literacy activities; the other assumes an ...